shazzam Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Luongo got us 2 presidents trophies and countless North West Division Banners!! What else does the guy have to do to get his number retired? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuck nit Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Luongo gave us some breath taking years of incredible performances. Gillis and AV should be giving him a reward for allowing them to keep their jobs-and that was given in the form of contract payment. Luo receives 64 million over 12 years or 5.3 million every year until his skin is baked dry in the Florida sun. Luo will receive $14,520.50 every morning of his life until 2021-2022 or until he is 43 years of age. Personally,I think he will not suffer or care one iota if he never enters the ROH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Why? Who has done more for this team and organization? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Yes if he won the Cup (think shutout in Game 7) but he deserves ROH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soshified Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 McLean: Strong community guy who played better when we needed him most. Still active in local hockey and business Luongo: Worse in the playoffs than the regular season. Won't even move his family to the city while he's playing here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorseGem2007 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 R O H for Bobby Lou is well deserved i think, but not his jersey in the rafters .... unless he wins us a Cup this season .... as far as i know he's still a Canuck !!! Not sure for how long tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Surfer Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Canadian Tire will issue a commemorative jersey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowelPower12 Posted August 20, 2012 Share Posted August 20, 2012 Kirk McLean is more deserving of the retirement than Luongo ever will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 I find that hilarious , Kirk Maclean did nothing more for the canucks then Luongo did not even put up as good of number as luongo has Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Underachieving Hero of CDC Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 He's only played for us for 6 years and he's never won a vezina or a Stanley cup. You have to do extraordinary things for your team to get an honor like jersey retirement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schnieds Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Absolutely not. For a team like Vancouver who's never won a cup in 42 years and only have 1 HHOFmer to have 6 retired numbers is crazy. I say 6 because 12, 16, 19 are already retired, 22 and 33 WILL get retired and now 1 is getting retired too? That's too many. As a comparison, the Oilers and their 5 cups have 7 retired numbers and the NYI and their 4 cups have 6 retired numbers. The Canucks are gonna have 5 retired numbers for a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watermelons Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 McLean did it when it counted? Sure, he had one GREAT playoff run, but what about the rest of his career? Did he ever bring the team even CLOSE to the Cup again? Please, one good playoff run doesn't mean he "brought his game when it counted" That is like CDC'ers saying Kesler is beast in the playoffs when he really had one great playoff series and was at best above average in all his other playoff series. Luongo brought our team from losers to winners...if his game when he first came here wasn't at top form, what would we be now? Sedins could be gone, and we might have Gomez and Camalleri....How is that "not bringing his game when it counted".... And honestly, he had a few bad playoff games during our Stanley Cup run, so what? Sure, McLean did great in his playoff run and didn't really have any bad games, but so did the entire Canucks team. When comparing Luongo's performance with the performance of the rest of the team, I'd argue that Luongo was one of the best players during our playoff run. 2 shutouts in the final 7 games? He won 2 games for us...what did the rest of the team do for him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watermelons Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Absolutely not. For a team like Vancouver who's never won a cup in 42 years and only have 1 HHOFmer to have 6 retired numbers is crazy. I say 6 because 12, 16, 19 are already retired, 22 and 33 WILL get retired and now 1 is getting retired too? That's too many. As a comparison, the Oilers and their 5 cups have 7 retired numbers and the NYI and their 4 cups have 6 retired numbers. The Canucks are gonna have 5 retired numbers for a very long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkstar Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 0 Stanley Cups, 0 Vezina's. Ring of honour maybe, but he doesn't deserve to have his number retired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylecanuck Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 He falls into this arguement: Is it the Hall of Fame or the Hall of Really Good? This franchise should not be in a rush to honour players for the sake of having a few more names in the rafters. The Lions only have 8 guys with honoured numbers and only two of them played in the last 25 years....and the next one will be Simon....but after that, no one close on the horizon. The next players that the Canucks should honour to whatever degree are the Sedins and that's it. Everyone else, forget it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylecanuck Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Double post Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee goren rulez69 Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 lol at everyone saying that fans are running luongo out of town...you think management gives a crap about what the fans want? no, because we would've gotten shea weber and zach parise by now. oh and what about that part where luongo himself said that would welcome a trade to another team Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tortorella's Rant Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 You must be right as MacLean never filled his shorts like Lu did. Players achieve greatness by stepping their game up when it is needed. Lu showed flashes of that but not consistantly. Both MacLean and Brodeur did when it counted. That said this BS about retiring numbers and the ROH are some kind of physco feel good exercise for a fan base starved for a CUP and heros. The perfect example is retiring Naslund's number, enough said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TowelPower12 Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 If Luongo not winning the cup is people's argument for him to not be up there then we should take down Linden Smyl and Naslund's numbers, cause last I checked they didn't bring us a cup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-AJ- Posted August 21, 2012 Share Posted August 21, 2012 Kirk McLean is more deserving of the retirement than Luongo ever will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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